From Bob's Cluttered Desk

I have a simple question. If you are head of the CIA, and you can’t keep your own extramarital affair secret, how safe are our country’s other secrets? For those of you who have been under a rock, detained at Guantanamo, or simply trying to navigate security at O'Hare the last couple weeks, there is…

It was announced this week that a Sarasota, FL police officer who was under investigation for workers' compensation fraud resigned to avoid being fired by the department. I don't know the particulars of his case, but living in Sarasota I can tell you it must be serious. It takes an act of God in this…

Editors Note: The following is a first ever “Guest Editorial” for “Bob’s Cluttered Desk”, and is in direct response to his recent article “Basic Rules for Marital Bliss When Dealing with Boblivious Behavior“ To those of you who think Boblivion sounds like a blissful place to live, let me introduce myself. I live with Bob’s…

As has been fairly well publicized, I recently had the opportunity to sit on a bloggers panel at the National Workers’ Compensation and Disability Conference in Las Vegas. Much of the discussion surrounded the nature of workers comp in today’s environment, and what we would like to see changed in the system. One thing that…

I have a theory that says if I prove adequately incompetent at performing basic household chores my wife will eventually stop asking me to perform them. Despite my initial impressions of a very high level of intelligence when we first met, she appears for all ostensible purposes to be a very slow learner in this…

I learned something at the special blogger session at the National Workers’ Compensation Conference this week. I learned that the 5 of us who were on the panel should just be allowed to run the entire workers’ comp industry, since we apparently know everything there is to know. In reality it would not likely improve…

It is 5:00AM, and having just left the National Conference hotel I am at McCarran International. I have safely navigated security, where my friendly TSA agent, a man whose name tag disturbingly reads “Two Finger Lou”, assured me that I am still polyp free. He did say something about eating more roughage, however. I must…

Forbes recently offered a well intentioned list of things we all should do to start our workday called “14 Things You Should Do at the Start of Every Work Day”. I thought I would review the list and see how it helped me improve my already stellar performance. Following is my “diary” for the day.…

This week our company will be announcing a new expansion of our WorkCompResearch.com Compliance library with the addition of comprehensive Settlement data for almost all jurisdictions across the country. While we have continually worked to improve and expand the WCR product since its launch in 2007, the real story here is the strategic partnership behind…

Imagine that your job was so unimportant that you could suffer a massive stroke in your office and no one noticed. For five days. Although no one seems to be talking about it in quite that manner, that is apparently what happened to a Computer Specialist at the University of Southern Maine last month. He…